Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit — John Ordway: April 22, 1806

we loaded up our horses & set out. assended a high hill one of
the horses threw hills threw his load & Scattered it one of the
Indians Stole a robe & hid it in one of their lodges, we found it2
& proced on [through] the high Smooth plain which is extensive &
Smooth back from the river about noon we halted at a village of
the Wal-a-wal tribe where we bought a dog and a little firewood,
the wind so high from the N. W. that the canoes being on the oppo-
site side of the river could not cross we purchased a horse, took
a light dinner and proceed on about 6 miles and Camped3 at a vil-
lage where we purchased a horse 5 dogs and a little wood and con-
siderable of new chappalell &C. in the evening Serg* Gass & R.
Fields came across the river & joined us with one of the Small
canoes.